Food Politics And Society In Latin America
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Food Politics And Society In Latin America
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Author : John C. Super
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Food Politics And Society In Latin America written by John C. Super and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Business & Economics categories.
Essays on food, the economic policy of food security, and sociological aspects of food consumption in Latin America - examines the historical aspects of nutrition and urban area food distribution; analyses food production in the land reform era, subsistence farming, and the role of USA in providing food aid to Brazil and Colombia; covers food dependence and malnutrition in Venezuela, the impact of revolution on food politics in Cuba and Nicaragua, and the social implications of the green revolution. Graphs, references, statistical tables.
Food Agriculture And Social Change
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Author : Stephen Sherwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-22
Food Agriculture And Social Change written by Stephen Sherwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-22 with Social Science categories.
In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to how capital, markets and states organize and operate. This has led to a gulf between public policy and people’s realities with food as experienced in homes and on the streets. Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, this book explores how development and social change in food and agriculture are fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable. In viewing development in food as a socio-political-material experience, the authors find new objects, intersubjectivities and associations. These reveal a multiplicity of processes, effects and affects largely absent in current academic literature and public policy debates. In their attention to the contingency and creativity found in households, neighbourhoods and social networks, as well as at the borders of human–nonhuman experience, the book explores how people diversely meet their food needs and passions while confronting the region’s most pressing social, health and environmental concerns.
Feeding Mexico
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Author : Enrique C. Ochoa
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2001-09-01
Feeding Mexico written by Enrique C. Ochoa and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-01 with History categories.
Winner of the 1998 Michael C. Meyer Manuscript Prize! Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910 traces the Mexican government's intervention in the regulation, production, and distribution of food from the days of Cardenas to the recent privatization inspired by NAFTA. Professor Ochoa argues that the real goals of the government's food subsidies were political, driven by presidential desires to court urban labor. Many of the agencies and policies were hastily set in place in response to short-term political or economic crises. Since the goals were not to alleviate poverty, but to provide modest subsidies to urban consumers, the policies did not eliminate destitution or malnutrition in the country. Despite the minimal achievements of these interventionist policies, the State Food Agency provided a symbol of the state's concern for the workers. The elimination of the Agency in the 1990s prompted social protest and unrest. Feeding Mexico is the first study to examine the creation of networks to deliver food products, the relationship of these channels of distribution to the food crisis, and the role of the state in trying to ameliorate the problem. Based on exhaustive research of new archival material and richly documented with statistical tables, this book exposes the dynamics and outcome of social policy in twentieth-century Mexico.
Voice And Participation In Global Food Politics
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Author : Alana Mann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-05
Voice And Participation In Global Food Politics written by Alana Mann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-05 with Political Science categories.
As awareness of the commodification of food for profit at the expense of our health and the planet grows, this book foregrounds the communicative dimensions of resistance by food movements. Voice and participation are argued by the author to be the means through which rural and urban communities can, and in many cases do, resist the capture of value by corporate actors and work to democratise their foodscapes. Her critical analysis of meaning-making under neo-liberalism suggests that agroecology, as a socially activating form of agriculture within a food sovereignty framework, provides an example of social learning relevant across rural/urban and North/South divides. Embracing indigenous knowledge, gender equity and postcolonial theory, this approach mobilises growers and eaters to contest the power structures that shape their food environments, and also to focus on social and economic justice within their communities, particularly in the context of climate change. Participatory ecologies that incorporate these forms of social learning encourage the co-creation of inclusive foodscapes and politicise food justice. Such a positive framing of resistance through horizontal pedagogy, participation, communication and social learning processes contrasts with the vertical dissemination structure of the corporatised food regime and takes vital steps towards a more democratic food system. Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics will be of interest to scholars of agri-food, transdisciplinary food studies and political economy of food systems. It will also be of relevance to NGOs and policymakers.
Hungry For Revolution
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Author : Joshua Frens-String
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2021-06-29
Hungry For Revolution written by Joshua Frens-String and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-29 with History categories.
Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.
Nutrition And Health Programs In Latin America
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Author : Guy Pierre Pfeffermann
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 1989
Nutrition And Health Programs In Latin America written by Guy Pierre Pfeffermann and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Alimentation categories.
In most countries, nutrition and health programs are the primary means of raising or maintaining the consumption of basic necessities by the poor. In both areas, a persistent failure of consumption or a lack of timely access to services can have catastrophic consequences. This report examines the targeting of nutrition and health programs to protect the poor in six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico) during the economic crisis that began at the end of the 1970s and persisted through most of the first half of the 1980s. Food programs come in several varieties: general price supports, school lunch programs, mother-and-infant nutrition supplements, and acute malnutrition treatment programs. The six countries use many different methods to target nutrition programs, and the ones that have the best targeting records also tend to get the best results at the least cost.
Global Activism In Food Politics
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Author : A. Mann
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-01
Global Activism In Food Politics written by A. Mann and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Who should provide food, and through what relationships? Whose livelihoods should be protected? For over 20 years the peasant farmers of La Via Campesina have been engaged in the fight against injustice, hunger and poverty under the banner of food sovereignty, 'the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems'. They campaign for healthy, sustainable alternatives to an industrial food system controlled by agribusiness companies and the architects of unfair trade agreements. This book draws on grounded case studies of agrarian movements in the Americas and Europe as exemplars of a 'power shift,' as local opposition scales up to global action in an effort to wrest control of our food away from transnational corporations and back to communities.
Anthropology And Food Policy
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Author : Della E. McMillan
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1991
Anthropology And Food Policy written by Della E. McMillan and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Social Science categories.
Starting from a base of anthropological fieldwork in particular societies and communities (in sub-Saharan East Africa, Mexico, Ecuador, Honduras, Malawi, and the Sudan), the authors utilize case studies to examine the meaning of their findings for the understanding needed for specific policy interventions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Public Policies And Food Systems In Latin America
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Author : Jean-François Le Coq
language : en
Publisher: Quae
Release Date : 2022-02-25
Public Policies And Food Systems In Latin America written by Jean-François Le Coq and has been published by Quae this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-25 with Health & Fitness categories.
Solving the problem of hunger and malnutrition, producing and guaranteeing access to healthy food, preserving the environment, valuing local cultures and ensuring citizen participation are some of the challenges that permeate the dynamics of food systems. From different scales and perspectives of analysis, the book addresses the role of Latin American public policies and actions in the configuration of healthy and sustainable food systems.
Latin America In The Era Of The Cuban Revolution And Beyond
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Author : Thomas C. Wright
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-01-18
Latin America In The Era Of The Cuban Revolution And Beyond written by Thomas C. Wright and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with Political Science categories.
An in-depth explanation of how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.S.-Latin American relations from the 1950s to the present, including widespread democratization and the rise of the "Pink Tide." Fidel Castro's ascent to power and the revolution he carried out in Cuba not only catalyzed a wave of revolutionary activity; it also set off a wave of reaction that led to widespread military dictatorships and severe repression culminating in state terrorism. Both revolution and reaction were essentially over by 1990, and yet significant long-term effects of the Cuban Revolution can still be seen in the modern era. Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution and Beyond covers the events of the Cuban Revolution itself, the resulting radicalization of Latin American politics, the United States' responses to the threat of communist expansion in the hemisphere, and rural and urban guerrilla warfare that were spawned by the Cuban Revolution. It also addresses the very different but incomplete communist revolutions in Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, the rise of state terrorism in response to the threat of revolution, and major developments after 1990. This book provides unique historical insights by bringing together under the umbrella of the impact of the Cuban Revolution developments that otherwise might seem unrelated to each other, thereby documenting the relationship between revolution and reaction. This third edition has three new chapters covering state terrorism in South America; state terrorism in Central America; and post-1990 developments such as neoliberalism, an unprecedented degree of democratization, the "Pink Tide" of leftist governments like those of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia; and women's major gains in politics. Additionally, all of the chapters and the bibliography are updated.